Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cloud on the horizon, no bigger than a boatswain's hand, as the sun rises on a new era in underwater communication: if radio waves can penetrate water to communicate with submarines, they may eventually be usable with different instrumentation for detection of submarines, which are now immune from anything but surface sighting and chance encounters with short-range sound devices...
...Beltsville substance is so new to chemists that it has not yet been analyzed or even named. But it is a major discovery in basic knowledge, may lead to bigger crops grown faster, and to control over harvesting times. "It's as if we had been hitting a carburetor with a hammer for years in an attempt to adjust it," says Dr. Hendricks. "Discovering this pigment is like learning that a screw on the bottom of the carburetor is what regulates...
Agriculture experts hope that a rapid price drop will discourage production. The U.S. corn farmer, already unhappy about this year's low prices, has an answer to that: rising productivity that enables him to grow ever bigger crops for ever bigger total subsidies, no matter what the price...
...event, the Dartmouth offense will be up for this game, and the varsity's line must be at its best. A hard-charging Crimson line would probably be an even bigger help to the pass defense than the revamped backfield. The varsity forward will should be able to give the Crimson backs plenty of running room against an Indian line whose performance to date has been undistinguished...
...Wall Streeters agree that the SEC is understaffed. It has a staff of only 1,000 and a budget of $8,100,000, well down from the peak staff of 1,683 in 1941, when its job was much smaller. But Congress has repeatedly ignored SEC requests for a bigger staff...